The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 4
It were indeed well were the Exalted One, as it were making the full moon rise in the heavens, to make this fact clear to us.”
Who acts: fact · What happens: exalt, make, clear · To what, where: fact, full moon rise, heavens, us
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fact), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Exalted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Exalted | aux:pass |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 well | advmod |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 Exalted | advmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Exalted | aux:pass |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Exalted | det |
| 7 | Exalted | exalt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 Exalted | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 making | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 making | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 making | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 making | aux |
| 13 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 Exalted | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rise | det |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rise | amod |
| 16 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rise | compound |
| 17 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 making | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 heavens | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 heavens | det |
| 20 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 rise | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 make | punct |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 make | mark |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 Exalted | parataxis |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 fact | det |
| 25 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 make | obj |
| 26 | clear | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 make | xcomp |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 us | case |
| 28 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 clear | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 make | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exalt | past · passive | fact | One obj; well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past · progressive | fact | the full moon rise | the heavens | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material rise=Product | |||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | this fact | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | clear | infinitive | this fact not said here | us | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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